For the BBC's news editors and their audience, a little question

...why are Israel's defensive weapon systems, those that are brought into play after the country comes under unprovoked attack yet again, and this time because of an in-house power-struggle between two of Iran's well-funded terror agents in Gaza, called warplanes?

Frimet/Arnold Roth..
This Ongoing War..
24 June '13..

The BBC's prominence and incomprehensibly vast budget get it influence that far exceed the impact that its owner, the United Kingdom, has or ought to have. The editors at the world's largest broadcaster routinely engage in the spinning of events that have more to do with advancing British interests than with the objective and dispassionate reporting of news.

But this is meant to be a short observation about one of its minor reports and not a larger analysis of what's wrong with the BBC. We think there is plenty there that is wrong. So do many other people. BBCwatch speaks (well) for some of them and for us.

As we posted here earlier this morning, there was a major wave of incoming rockets during the night, originating in Gaza and directed at exacting civilian casualties. Thank heavens, there was little fallout though enormous fear and disruption to ordinary people's lives.

In reporting on this today, the editors at the BBC (see "Israel hits back after Gaza rockets") started with this sentence:

Israeli warplanes have attacked targets in the Gaza Strip after missiles were fired into southern Israel late on Sunday night.

We wonder:

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